Cesare Paolantonio - Improbable Dwelling 10A

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, paradoxically accentuating the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal. The Surrealism developed by Cesare Paolantonio, however, seems to take a different direction. His works are based on automatic writing and the definition of worlds and figures from another dimension, but everything is rendered in an abstract form.

Cesare Paolantonio's compositions are always highly complex, and one can certainly call them Surrealist in that the artist places no limits on his world. However, Paolantonio's aesthetic is distinguished by the highly rational character his dreamlike world assumes. This rationality is fueled by the presence of various architectural elements accumulated in a mechanically constructed space, indebted to Cubist decompositional analysis. The arrangement of all the elements is influenced by this remarkable geometric spirit, which, combined with the implausibility of the subjects, produces an even more alienating effect.

Cesare Paolantonio (Monza 1937 – Piario 2015). After graduating from the Art School in Milan, he attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Professor Aldo Carpi. In Venice, he attended a specialization course in etchings under the "Tono Zancanaro" program, and for some time spent in the studio of Bruno Mantovani and that of the sacred art painter Luigi Filocamo. In 1955, he began painting on his own, first in his studio in Sesto San Giovanni, then in Milan, and now in Gromo. From 1981 to 1999, he was an artistic contributor to the Sunday supplement of the daily newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore."

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